Requests monitoring for a collection of files within a directory.
A FAM event will be generated whenever the status of the files change. The possible event codes are described in detail in the constants part of this section.
fam
A resource representing a connection to the FAM service returned by fam_open()
dirname
Directory path to the monitored files
depth
The maximum search depth
starting from this
directory
mask
A shell pattern mask
restricting the file names
to look for